So you think you can tune a guitar? Maybe you can, but when you’re in the studio laying down a track for posterity, there are plenty of details that you might overlook…
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Music Technology Posts from March, 2010
How To Tune A Guitar
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Skinput – The Human Touchscreen
Thursday, March 25th, 2010So touchscreen laptops are now in the mainstream, with gesture-based control not far behind. However, some even newer technology could turn your own arm into a control surface…
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Saving Dynamic Range #DYNAMICRANGEDAY
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Saturday was Dynamic Range Day – part of a campaign to help fight the trend of making music recordings as loud as possible. Being louder might seem like a good idea, but there is a high price to pay…
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How To Prevent Clipping
Monday, March 15th, 2010Clipping is a particularly nasty form of distortion that occurs in the digital domain when the level of the audio signal moves above 0dB – into the red. Because there’s no more space to describe the waveform, we instead get a truncation…
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Originality Of The Specious
Monday, March 8th, 2010Here’s an example of how new art can be created by copying old art – this video by Nina Paley was designed to illustrate the flaws in our current copyright systems, and how we shouldn’t be basing these systems on the impossible concept of originality…
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Can We Cope With Artificial Music?
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Many people perceive art as an expression of the human soul, a revelation of our unique humanness. However, one modern composer – Emily Howell – has generated a great deal of controversy and thrown these beliefs into question, partly because her compositions are actually quite good…
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